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How good is the macaque monkey model of the human brain?

Macaque monkeys are widely used in order to understand the mechanisms of the human brain. But humans have capacities not found in monkeys, and their brains differ in important ways, for example in the proportions of different regions and in microstructure. However, this does not mean that we must ab...

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Autor principal: Passingham, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Current Biology 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19261463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2009.01.002